Influences
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I took a look at the reading list that David Bowie has been reading over the years and I've read two and I'm working on a third. I definitly enjoyed 1984 by George Orwell and Baal. I'm an actor and so the Brecht theatre is absolutely fascinating and useful to me. I just started reading Buddha of Suburbia. I find it a bit interesting. I never got to see the play because I live in America (which sucks for that reason because a lot of the really neat artful stuff that exists out in England we don't get access to unless we have BBC America, and forget that! Our cable company sucks like that. It doesn't help that I'm in a small town, either). But generally if you like some of the ideas that David comes up with, I'm sure you're going to love his reading list, because they are extremely influential. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein The Wild Boys by William Burrows Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood 1984 by George Orwell A Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde A Theif's Journal by Jean Genet Baal: A Man's Man and the Elephant Calf by Berholt Brecht Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi On the Road by Jack Kerouac Also any works by Kahlil Gilbrain What's really funny is that I haven't seen any of these movies, just little pieces of Seven Years in Tibet, but I've been meaning to see these. It's just well, I'm in college and I'm a lazy bum...what do you expect from me, okay? I've been busy watching good classic crappy television, doing papers, trying to read, and working, K? *lol* Wild is the Wind Beauty and the Beast Dead Man Walking Seven Years in Tibet
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These are some of the
books and movies that were extremely influential to David. Since I've been
influenced by David in my life, I thought I should create a page dedicated to his
influences. By the way...the books section is David's reading list over the
years...just a few books. Check it out...perhaps you'll enjoy it too.